Eskom wants to go green — mostly with other people's money
Its year-old renewables arm is about to tender a 2GW solar and 1GW battery project, and plans to keep the cost off Eskom's strained balance sheet by leaning on private partners.
Christian Maidman
Pick n Pay's recovery is real — but its own supermarkets aren't the engine
Online sales jumped 37.5% and clothing clawed back, yet the core Pick n Pay supermarkets stayed flat — and a contested retrenchment fight still stands between the group and break-even.
The JSE is fighting to land a piece of Africa's biggest-ever listing
Johannesburg is openly courting Nigeria's Dangote refinery for a secondary listing — but "strong intent" is not a signed deal, and even a win might only be a shadow of one.
South Africa's property funds just broke free of the interest-rate trap
Listed property beat both shares and bonds in July, and for once it was not about rate cuts — rising rental income is now doing the heavy lifting.
Emirates and SAA turn a 30-year partnership into a two-way street
With regulators signed off, Emirates can now sell seats on South African Airways flights across nine domestic and regional routes — and Johannesburg gets to play gateway.
EasyEquities is about to move into Absa's banking app
The investing platform will embed inside Absa's app from September, handing the bank's millions of customers a route into the market — without Absa having to build a broker of its own.
Sasol's profit is about to leap — but not the number that counts most
A fresh trading statement points to statutory earnings nearly doubling, yet the cleaned-up figure investors actually track barely moves — and a friendlier oil price, not a turnaround, did the lifting.
SpaceX doubled its revenue, and it wasn't the rockets that did it
In its first results since a record IPO, SpaceX's revenue jumped 92% — driven by renting out AI computing power to Anthropic and Google, and by Starlink.
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MTN is buying back the towers it once sold off
A shareholder vote has pushed MTN a step closer to taking full control of Africa's biggest tower company in a R101-billion deal.
The Roundup — Thursday, 6 August 2026
The business day in five minutes — Thursday, 6 August 2026.
The plan to police crypto at the border, and why VALR says it backfires
Treasury and the Reserve Bank want cross-border crypto routed through approved channels; the country's biggest exchange warns it will push the money out of sight.
A court just ordered the boss of South Africa's biggest fund manager reinstated
The High Court set aside Patrick Dlamini's suspension, ruling the PIC board never had the power to remove him.